College Times

Issue date: 3/5/09 Section: Top 10s

We are in a recession, and guess what? Desperate times sometimes call for desperate measures. Here are some of my favorite stories from the last few months.

10. Three teenage boys were charged with breaking into an apartment and stealing $7,000 worth of jewelry that police found hidden in an empty Cheetos bag. Read Here.

9. A man posing as an armored guard in Lincoln, Nebraska, told a church employee that he was there to pick up a weekly deposit, and ran off with $145,000 from the church. Read Here.

8. A 19-year-old man was charged with robbery after stealing a customer's laptop when he was told he couldn't borrow it to check his Facebook. Read Here.

7. A Girl Scout troop in Washington was paid $100 worth of counterfeit bills for cookies. Read Here.

6. A woman in Denmark convinced a bank to exchange Swedish Monopoly money for a quantity of real Danish money. Read Here.

5. After a woman bounced a check, she stole a person's credit card information in order to pay for her new boob job. Read Here.

4. A man faces jail time for using his skills as a plumber to steal pipes from restaurant bathrooms and then sell the metal for scrap. Read Here,

3. A groom in Austria staged four different bank robberies so that he could pay for his wedding. Read Here.

2. A woman was charged with burglary after breaking into a home repeatedly to use the washing machine. Read Here.

1. A couple decided to trade their two children in for a cockatoo after they could not afford the price of the bird. Read Here.

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